Opinions please.

[2qk4u]

Im buying a FC in Japan and was sent these photos,if you zoom in you can see a badge/plate on the intercooler from R-Magic in Japan.Do you recon its been tuned by them ? There is a Greddy injector controller inside the car and you will see more mods in the photo,What do you think ?

[sadgoth]

looks reasonably standard, the AFM is still in place, top mount IC and it doesn\'t look like a larger turbo or anything. The R-magic logo could be just that a logo, or it could be an indicator that the car has been played with by R-magic

[20B_boy]

looks reasonably standard, the AFM is still in place, top mount IC and it doesn\'t look like a larger turbo or anything. The R-magic logo could be just that a logo, or it could be an indicator that the car has been played with by R-magic

Aye, dont see any thing that would warrant additional injectors - all looks fairly stock still.

[grinder]

id say thats the stock TMIC

looks like it has after market suspension and water temp guage

it still has the AC and air pump - so cant see it being tuned that much ?

[pdtaylor18]

Yep looks pretty standard apart from suspension which looks like HKS, additional water temp for your gauges, possibly boost controller of some sort. It does have a twin belt pully on the alternator but no twin belt.  Could do with some more pics.  I doubt its had much done as theres no point if everything is standard,you can get away with a standard ECU with whats been done,it does have the safeguard of a FCD and boost controller.
How much they going for in Japan these days,seen some nice ones but they are still going for around 4-5K and thats without shipping and customs.

[2qk4u]

Is the Greddy injector controller just in it to up the boost safely ?

[2qk4u]

Yep looks pretty standard apart from suspension which looks like HKS, additional water temp for your gauges, possibly boost controller of some sort. It does have a twin belt pully on the alternator but no twin belt.  Could do with some more pics.  I doubt its had much done as theres no point if everything is standard,you can get away with a standard ECU with whats been done,it does have the safeguard of a FCD and boost controller.
How much they going for in Japan these days,seen some nice ones but they are still going for around 4-5K and thats without shipping and customs.

This one is fairly cheap, it has 160k on it.Some of the low milage high grade FC\'s get FD money still..

[pdtaylor18]

thats a lot of miles and would not touch it.  There are plenty of 60k cars going cheap. I think that the FC will eventually be on par with the FD as they last longer engine wise and cheaper to rebuilt, spares etc.  I sold my last cab TII for £4300 and then i could have got more,just wanted a quick sale.

[2qk4u]

Yeah I know thats a lot of klms, but Im interested in the extras thats on it.It will save me money in the long run.It has a recaro bucket seat,harness,coilover suspension,exhaust,radiator,boost controller,injector controller,aftermarket lights,body kit,diff ?,braces,some other bits....
Im going to have a go doing the rebuild myself,freind of mine has done 3 allready and he will show me what to do.

[Kron]

To be honest the miles wouldn\'t matter as long as its been retained well or the engine and gearbox rebuilt. Its only 80k miles after all.